Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This lesson goes over tips an techniques for writing an effective topic sentence. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Developing the Central Idea
What do you want your audience to remember the most about the topic of your speech? This is will be your central idea and it can be boiled down to one sentence! Follow these guidelines for writing a concise central idea and then practice...